Episode 1709 - Eating disorders & obesity #PTonICE Daily Show

Dr. Ellen Csepe // #TechniqueThursday // www.ptonice.com 


In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, Older Adult division teaching assistant Ellen Csepe discusses eating disorders & obesity, the relationship between mood & disordered eating, binge eating as the most common form of disordered eating, and the role of the physical therapist in eating disorders.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
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ELLEN CSEPE
Good morning everybody and welcome to the PT on Ice daily show brought to you by the Institute of Clinical Excellence. My name is Ellen Csepe. I'm a teaching assistant with the modern management of the older adult division coming to you live from Littleton, Colorado. I'm an outpatient physical therapist who practices with the same question in mind every day. Why aren't physical therapists more involved in managing one of the most pressing health crises in the world today. Obesity. On today's Leadership Thursday, we're going to discuss eating disorders in those with obesity. To feel complete in our treatment of those with obesity, we have an obligation to understand the link between eating disorders and obesity. This is a very nuanced topic with a lot of viewpoints and a lot of new research, but I want to be respectful of your morning and keep this discussion succinct and have this framework for today. First, we're going to open about how mood disorders and obesity are related. Then we'll talk about the most common eating disorder that affects people with and without obesity. Then we'll talk about our number one job as clinicians to avoid provoking disordered eating and then what we can do pragmatically if we suspect our patient is struggling with an eating disorder. So to open us up, for those of us who have never struggled with an eating disorder or obesity, having an issue with your weight can just seem like a physics equation gone wrong. Too many calories in, not enough calories out equals obesity. But for those who are struggling with their weight, this oversimplified physics equation really overlooks the emotional and mental language that can come with struggling with your weight or your perception of your weight. We see obesity as a complex biopsychosocial chronic disease with this framework in mind that it is anything but simple. And thinking tha